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- From: crj10@phx.cam.ac.uk (Clive Jones)
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- Subject: Re: FAQ?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.170244.20649@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 17:02:44 GMT
- References: <1992Nov18.021320.2920@udel.edu> <1992Nov19.180549.6584@leland.Stanford.EDU> <1992Nov19.202455.13717@udel.edu>,<1992Nov20.154808.11574@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
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- In-Reply-To: sa121@cl.cam.ac.uk (S. Arrowsmith)'s message of Fri, 20 Nov 1992 15:48:08 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov20.154808.11574@infodev.cam.ac.uk>, sa121@cl.cam.ac.uk (S. Arrowsmith) writes:
- [ Flavours of ice cream as machine names... ]
- > BBQ-ripple, of course!!!! (-8
-
- Argh! I thought that the BBQ-ripple thread was *long* dead...
-
- Mind you, Mike says it sounds quite nice. Gurgle.
-
- > (That's almost as weird as some of the machine/printer names around
- > here....)
-
- Naah - they all make sense! DECstations named after Cambridgeshire villages,
- VAXen named after classes of locomotive. Main printers named after types of
- locomotive (steam, electric, diesel - they installed clockwork recently...).
- Machines in the Fairisle project named after shipping zones. Pandora boxes
- given Japanese names for parts of the body (first was Japanese for the arm -
- guess which processor they use...). Wanda machines named after fish. Other
- printers named after trees. File servers named after Cambridgeshire towns. A
- few private machines called silly things. Apple Macs for DTP named after types
- of apple. Bobcats named after species of great cat.
-
- OK, so serval, goldendelicious, halibut, county, manea, ashi, ely, dogger, etc.
- look a little incongruous at first, but never mind... (-8
-
- --Clive.
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